page_title: Superbubble
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Superbubble / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: ESO’s Very Large Telescope has been used to obtain this view of the nebula LHA 120-N 44 surrounding the star cluster NGC 1929. Lying within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, this region of star formation features a colossal superbubble of material expanding outwards due to the influence of the cluster of young stars at its heart that sculpts the interstellar landscape and drives forward the nebula’s evolution.
context_page_description: A superbubble or supershell is a cavity which is hundreds of light years across and is populated with hot gas atoms, less dense than the surrounding interstellar medium, blown against that medium and carved out by multiple supernovae and stellar winds. The winds, passage and gravity of newly born stars strip superbubbles of any other dust or gas. The Solar System lies near the center of an old superbubble, known as the Local Bubble, whose boundaries can be traced by a sudden rise in dust extinction of exterior stars at distances greater than a few hundred light years.
context_section_description: LHA 120-N 44 (N44) in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
  Anticenter shell, a supershell once called "Snickers"
  Henize 70
  Monogem Ring
  Ophiuchus Superbubble
  The Scutum Supershell
  Orion-Eridanus Superbubble
caption: Very Large Telescope image of superbubble LHA 120-N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO/Manu Mejias.
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